On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 22:21 -0500, Matt Hyclak wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 02:15:59PM +1100, David Booth enlightened us: > > Matt Hyclak wrote: > > >On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 04:03:41PM -0600, Johnny Hughes enlightened us: > > >>>Craig White had also written > > >>> > > >>>"You could probably repeat for smp kernel if you have multiple > > >>>processors" > > >>> > > >>>I will need to do that but I don't know what you mean - do I need driver > > >>>disks for that too? > > >>> > > >>You should not need driver disks for install for an smp kernel. > > >> > > >>The installer uses the regular kernel and not an smp kernel. > > > > > >Well, you need them at install time in the sense that if you want the > > >system > > >to boot to the SMP kernel when your done installing, it has to be there. > > > > > >Matt > > > > > Thanks, but this doesn't help. > > I'm installing on an HP with dual processors. > > (And a dual processor Acer after that.) > > > > Craig mentions "repeat for smp kernel" in the context of compiling the > > megaraid driver first with kernel-devel-xx.i586 and then again with > > kernel-devel-xx.686 and loading them at install time in a special sequence. > > > > Is there something similar that needs to be done with > > kernel-smp-devel-xx.i586/686? Compile what? Load when? > > > > Suppose I can get the megaraid scsi driver working and Centos4.4 > > installed and running: can I ignore the smp stuff and sort it out later? > > Yes, you'll just have to boot the UP kernel until you do. It should just be > a matter of repeating the same steps with kernel-smp-devel and putting the > resulting .ko files in /lib/modules/xxx.ELsmp ---- yes - indeed ---- > > And actually, I don't think the 586 stuff is needed anymore since as of > CentOS 4.4, the installer uses the i686 kernel unless you specifically > request i586 on the boot line. ---- I didn't realize they had changed the boot disk - that makes the installation significantly easier and thus the tuxyturvy web site instructions are pretty much the ones to follow in that event as my instructions were for dealing with a i586 kernel from the CentOS install disks (substituting kernel versions of course since the kernel has incremented since the original release of RHEL-4). Craig